Jaime Fox
PhD
HI, USHe has managed companies, organizations, departments, teams, products, grants, and projects for nearly 30 years. He has also taught at the university graduate school level for more than a decade.
He recently served as Director of Engineering for Google's Niantic Labs for new product development in areas at the intersection of geo/local, social, and mobile applications and mobile games such as Ingress (Niantic's technical precursor for Pokemon Go) and FieldTrip, managing engineering teams in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Mountain View, California. He was previously engineering manager for Google Maps, Google's Launch Team, and Google's Enterprise Group.
Jamie is also a co-chair of the Maui Software Initiative, a private enterprise group focused on evolving Maui into a software technology center for the Pacific Rim, and he is a member of the University of Hawaii Maui College Advisory Board for their Applied Business and Information Technology program.
His interests, activities, and research focus on the essence of how organizations can effectively produce software of value for users, and thus involves management, leadership, software engineering, innovation, technology trends, communities of practice, collaboration and organizational performance. These interests encompass the realms of "lean" development, open source, software services, and reflect the intricate balance between product management and project management when constrained by real market economics.
Jamie worked in Silicon Valley for more than two decades as a senior technical management positions at Google, HP Labs, Netscape, and Apple's Advanced Technology Group. Prior to Google, throughout 2005 and 2006, Jamie was a Consulting Professor of Software Engineering Management at Carnegie Mellon University's West Coast Campus.
From 2000 through 2004 Jamie managed the Global Collaboration Environments Group at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in Palo Alto, California, where he oversaw the Lab's worldwide external and internal web sites and services, streaming media services, and collaboration tools, and content management systems. Prior to that he was the manager of technology transfer for software at HP Labs, scaled from the desktop to the enterprise.
Jamie had the wild ride of working as a senior technical manager at Netscape for 5 years managing software development of e-commerce software, and creating developer training programs. Earlier, he managed development in Apple's Advanced Technology Group in the User Experience Laboratory. His work has covered the spectrum from senior scientist to senior product management, from software development manager to software training, from performance support systems to international ecommerce installations. He had tours of duty as a product manager at both AOL (America Online) for calendars and iPlanet (the Netscape/Sun venture) in ecommerce.
He also held an appointment as a Research Fellow at California State University, Monterey Bay in the School of Information Technology and Communication Design for 2004-2005. He was formerly Vice-Chair of the Environmental Committee of the Los Altos, California City Council.
Dr. Fox taught at Michigan State for 10 years, and also founded and ran two start-up companies focused on advanced analytic software for the media industries, especially television news operations. He has a background in radio (former president of WRPI-FM) and live musical performance (click here for some of his tunes and music videos.). He has published in both the academic and trade press, and holds two active patents on web technologies.
Jamie received his B.S. in Management Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy N.Y. with a specialization in operations research and minor in economics, his M.S. in communications research also from RPI with an emphasis on statistical modeling, and his Ph.D. in communications research from Michigan State University with studies in system science, organizations, and media.
He has managed companies, organizations, departments, teams, products, grants, and projects for nearly 30 years. He has also taught at the university graduate school level for more than a decade.
He recently served as Director of Engineering for Google's Niantic Labs for new product development in areas at the intersection of geo/local, social, and mobile applications and mobile games such as Ingress (Niantic's technical precursor for Pokemon Go) and FieldTrip, managing engineering teams in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Mountain View, California. He was previously engineering manager for Google Maps, Google's Launch Team, and Google's Enterprise Group.
Jamie is also a co-chair of the Maui Software Initiative, a private enterprise group focused on evolving Maui into a software technology center for the Pacific Rim, and he is a member of the University of Hawaii Maui College Advisory Board for their Applied Business and Information Technology program.
His interests, activities, and research focus on the essence of how organizations can effectively produce software of value for users, and thus involves management, leadership, software engineering, innovation, technology trends, communities of practice, collaboration and organizational performance. These interests encompass the realms of "lean" development, open source, software services, and reflect the intricate balance between product management and project management when constrained by real market economics.
Jamie worked in Silicon Valley for more than two decades as a senior technical management positions at Google, HP Labs, Netscape, and Apple's Advanced Technology Group. Prior to Google, throughout 2005 and 2006, Jamie was a Consulting Professor of Software Engineering Management at Carnegie Mellon University's West Coast Campus.
From 2000 through 2004 Jamie managed the Global Collaboration Environments Group at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in Palo Alto, California, where he oversaw the Lab's worldwide external and internal web sites and services, streaming media services, and collaboration tools, and content management systems. Prior to that he was the manager of technology transfer for software at HP Labs, scaled from the desktop to the enterprise.
Jamie had the wild ride of working as a senior technical manager at Netscape for 5 years managing software development of e-commerce software, and creating developer training programs. Earlier, he managed development in Apple's Advanced Technology Group in the User Experience Laboratory. His work has covered the spectrum from senior scientist to senior product management, from software development manager to software training, from performance support systems to international ecommerce installations. He had tours of duty as a product manager at both AOL (America Online) for calendars and iPlanet (the Netscape/Sun venture) in ecommerce.
He also held an appointment as a Research Fellow at California State University, Monterey Bay in the School of Information Technology and Communication Design for 2004-2005. He was formerly Vice-Chair of the Environmental Committee of the Los Altos, California City Council.
Dr. Fox taught at Michigan State for 10 years, and also founded and ran two start-up companies focused on advanced analytic software for the media industries, especially television news operations. He has a background in radio (former president of WRPI-FM) and live musical performance (click here for some of his tunes and music videos.). He has published in both the academic and trade press, and holds two active patents on web technologies.
Jamie received his B.S. in Management Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy N.Y. with a specialization in operations research and minor in economics, his M.S. in communications research also from RPI with an emphasis on statistical modeling, and his Ph.D. in communications research from Michigan State University with studies in system science, organizations, and media.
